Kuwait Risk Assessment Indicators: Admin Level 2 Flood and Demographic Data

Supplying risk assessment indicators for Kuwait at the administrative level 2 (district) scale, specifically designed for flood hazard analysis. Produced by the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and updated in March 2026, it aggregates demographic, infrastructure, and accessibility data from sources including WorldPop and OpenStreetMap.

Use Cases

• Calculating flood risk by intersecting flood_exposure with demographic columns like children_u5 and elderly
• Analyzing healthcare accessibility gaps using access_pop_hospitals_30min and primary_healthcare_count
• Planning emergency response infrastructure based on education_count and hospital_count within specific districts

Strengths

• Aggregates data from four major sources including WorldPop, OSM, GEE, and openrouteservice
• Provides specific travel-time accessibility metrics for healthcare and education facilities
• Standardized using HDX COD-AB administrative boundaries

Limitations

• Relies on OpenStreetMap for facility counts, which may have varying completeness across districts
• Aggregated at admin level 2, which may mask sub-district local variations in risk
• Temporal coverage of the underlying Google Earth Engine and WorldPop data is not specified

Provenance

Source

HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)

Collection Method

Aggregated via the GAIA Pipeline from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, Google Earth Engine, and openrouteservice

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Kuwait (Admin Level 2)